Hey guys, it's me again, and I'm starting up another fic. As usual, I have a few ground rules.

1. "Yo-Kai" are going to be spelled as yokai. It's a lot easier that way.

2. This fic, while uses yokai we're familiar with, are based on the ones I've used in my file of Blasters, so they may be a little (or a lot) different. Think of the different yokai as species and these are individuals.

3. I'm (for once) using names of yokai and places from the English Dub, to hopefully make things a bit easier to read.

4. Like all my fics (unless stated), this takes place in it's own canon, so there's going to be some differences.

Chapter 1: Lone Star Finds a Constellation!

There are many unseen spirits called yokai in this world, often causing mischief for humans and each other alike. Many tales have been told of brave humans who have wielded a device called the Yokai Watch to see these specters and have adventures with them.

However, our focus is on an individual yokai and the legend they get wrapped up into…

It all began on a normal afternoon in the city of Springdale, a happy and normal city that seems to be a favored one for the invisible yokai. A normal day indeed, the yokai wondered about doing their usual activities, sometimes disguised as humans, other times completely out of sight.

"G-Get away from me!" A tiny and helpless voice cried, being cornered in a dark alley in the uptown area of the city. A larger, more intimidating yokai looked down at the much more helpless one.

"Well well well, will ya' look at that," A rough and brash voice of the more intimidating yokai said, being in the form of a green lizard with a punked out hairdo. "A lil' goody good dragon who's shakin' in fear!"

"G-Give me back my jewel right now mister!" The smaller yokai cried, being a small dragon with teal scales and a tuft of fluffy golden hair that resembled a star.

"Nah, do ya realize how much more use I could put to this thing?" The lizard yokai boasted, happily tossing around a dark blue jewel. "I could be makin' at least ten thousand Yo-en easy with this thing!"

"B-But it isn't yours!" The tiny dragon cried at the lizard. "And stealing is very wrong and bad!"

The lizard yokai scoffed at the words of the tiny dragon. "Well if that ain't cute, and you know what's more cuter than that?"

The green punk quickly socked the tiny dragon right in the jaw, kicking the little dude into a wall shortly after.

Being slammed into the wall and punched pretty hard, the dragon began to cry, and cry really loudly in pain. "T-That really hurt!"

"Ya it did, but your tears are so dang cute!" The lizard boasted, laughing all the way.

However, something, or somebody rather, was able to pick up the cries of the distressed yokai. A blur was quickly running through the city, before approaching the dark alley.

"Now, Roughraff, do I have to teach you a lesson?" A voice asked, the green lizard looking a bit uneasy.

"Uh, no mistah blaster sir, me and this lil Draggie here were just messin a-around!" The lizard, Roughraff, tried to defend himself with. Though, the mysterious figure was not having any of this.

"I'm not a blaster I am…" The heroic voice announced, revealing to be what looked like a dutch bunny wearing a stylish white and blue metal and spandex suit, with a big red scarf flowing behind him and his yellow eyes looking at the evildoer in question.

"I am the Lone Shooting Star Ranger, Subaru!" The rabbit yokai, Subaru, announced, doing a pose.

"Ah geez, I thought you were a blaster, not some wackadoo karate rainbow spandexman wannabee!" Roughraff stammered, Subaru stepping in a bit closer.

"So, are you going to stop messing with this innocent bystander here quietly?" Subaru interrogated Roughraff with. "Or am I going to have to teach you a lesson about not messing with the weak?"

Roughraff stepped closer to Subaru, a punch ready. "Come at me, bunny bro!"

Noticing the delinquent's rather predictability in combat, Subaru was able to swiftly hold up his small arm to stop the punch from striking him in the face. The rabbit yokai then used his chopping motion to send Roughraff backwards, making him fall onto his feet.

"Well….Well well well…." Roughraff muttered to himself, trying to think of a solution. "This ain't going so well…"

"Are you giving up?" Subaru asked, only to notice Roughraff about to get up with his hands to kick him.

"Nah not ye-Waaaaargh!" Roughraff stated back, Subaru moving out of the way at the last second to prevent himself from getting kicked. Subaru responded by giving a swift kick into the lizard's gut, causing him to drop the jewel he stole from the Draggie.

"Owwwwwch!" Roughraff stammered, Subaru picking up the jewel with one hand.

"How does it feel to get a taste of your own medicine?" Subaru asked, Roughraff starting to look uneasy.

"It tastes awful, nasty, and horrible, man!" Roughraff finished, started to run off. "Keep your jewel, I'm gettin outta here!"

And with that, the Roughraff disappeared with a puff of purple smoke, returning to his residence in the Yokai World. Subaru approached the frightened Draggie, having a much more gentle look on his face.

"You okay little guy?" Subaru asked, the dragon yokai slowly getting back up.

"Y-Yeah…" The little dragon spoke up, Subaru holding the jewel he retrieved from Roughraff to the dragon.

"This is yours, right?" Subaru asked, the little dragon taking it back swiftly.

"Oh thank you mister Subaru! This jewel is very important to me…" The Draggie spoke, very happy and relieved, before looking shocked.

"Where are my manners, I'm Ryuusei!" The Draggie, Ryuusei properly introduced himself. "I was out doing patrolling and I got lost…"

"Patrolling?" Subaru asked a bit curiously, Ryuusei looking a bit surprised.

"I do it with my friends Aykoya and Eros! We're training to become good Blasters, the defenders of the weak and the fighters for all that is right!" Ryuusei informed, Subaru looking a bit puzzled.

"So you're in a team huh?" Subaru stated, shly tugging at his large scarf. "Well I uhh….don't do so well in groups…"

"Oh you don't?" Ryuusei asked curiously, Subaru quickly nodding.

"Yeah….I'm...not….yeah…" Subaru quickly stammered, leading Ryuusei out of the alley they were in. "I'll be going now, you stay out of trouble now, okay?"

"I'll try my best, and thank you!" Ryuusei waved goodbye, Subaru running off elsewhere in case there was danger afoot.

"Running on foot is a bit slow, I should get a ride and-" Subaru muttered, being a bit short on breath as he patted around his head in search of something. "Ah darn it! My riding goggles! I must've left them at home….If I had a home…"

Subaru started to run frantically around the uptown area, looking for his goggles. "They gotta be somewhere, how am I supposed to ride all cool without proper eye protection!?"

After some frantic looking around, Subaru noticed something stuck up in a tree. They appeared to be a fine pair of goggles with reddish-pink lenses and encased in a dark grey metal.

"Huh, might've left them up there, then…" Subaru commented, climbing up the tree to retrieve his goggles, or at least what he presumed to be his goggles. He placed them on his head, which they seemed to fit quite perfectly.

"Well then, with my goggles back in hand I should be catching a train by standing on top of it or something," Subaru stated to himself, looking around. "Think it was downtown that train station was…"

The small rabbit yokai kept looking around, trying to remember where in the world that train station was. Somewhere else in this place needed his help, most likely. He was a wandering soul, finding those who needed help in times of need.

Though, his pondering about himself couldn't keep going on for much longer, as his large ears could hear something.

"W-What's wrong with that thing!?" One voice cried out.

"Hey! Chill out! What's up with you!?" Another yelled in the chaos.

"W-What do we do!?" A third yelped, absolutely horrified for their life.

The source of these voices were a trio of yokai, Ryuusei being among them. The two by his side was a Mermaidyn with a primarily black tail with a few white patches, her hair done a bit messily. The other was a Cupistol, with an obnoxiously flashy bowtie and heart shaped sunglasses, all matching with his masterfully tied up hair.

Standing, or rather floating in front of them was a cute little Shmoopie, having a cute little bow next to their carnation pink fur. Though, something seemed a bit off about the cutesy dog yokai.

"You…" The Shmoopie began to speak, sounding quite off and eerie. "I'll finish you all!"

Diving in after the two, the tiny dog bared fangs, showing that they were much more sharp and intimidating than you'd expect from such a little thing.

Dashing for the Mermaidyn's tail, the fish yokai responded by giving the Shmoopie a hard tail slap.

"Hey! Back off already, do you know any manners!?" The Mermaidyn snapped back, getting pretty feisty, "That's the second time you've done this!"

"Deary me, it seems like you won't learn…" The Cupistol commented. "Freya, what's gotten into you?"

The Shmoopie, Freya, growled angrily. "Freya? I don't know that name! And manners? What are those? All I ever want to see if you guys to get punished for your crimes!"

Leading up to her words, Freya let out a mighty, deep howl, unleashing a powerful shockwave of dark energy to the trio. From the howl, it was a shockwave powerful enough to have the trio fall onto their backs, or into nearby building walls.

"Owie...I don't like being beaten around for the second time today…" Ryuusei commented, sounding like he was about to cry.

"H-How is this even possible?" The Cupistol asked about this situation. "Freya never used such an aggressive technique before!"

"What's gotten into her…" The Mermaidyn questioned silently to herself.

"I'll make sure you three don't interfere ever again!" Freya barked, looking about ready to finish the three off…

"Hold it! I ain't gonna let you do so!" A familiar heroic voice shouted, revealing to be none other than Subaru. "I'm not letting you do any more damage!"

"Just who are you?" Freya asked, Subaru starting to pose.

"I am the Lone Shooting Star Ranger, Subaru-" Subaru tried to say, only for Freya to get a bit frustrated.

"I've heard enough, long ears!" Freya barked, quite literally. "I don't got time to hear some long winded introduction about how you'll stop evil, make sure there's no traffic accidents, blah blah blah."

"Gotcha, you want me to be a yokai of actions and not words," Subaru remarked, giving a nod at he took up a stance. "Then prepare yourself!"

Without another word from his mouth, Subaru started to charge at Freya at quick speeds, a punch ready to hit the cutesy yokai. Freya took note of the speeding rabbit slamming him pretty hard with her large tail to slow him down, then biting his arm and threw him into a wall like a frustrated dog with a chew toy.

"Ow…That really hurt…" Subaru huffed to himself, the trio of blasters looking worried.

"Subaru oh no…" Ryuusei cried, trying his best to get up without Freya noticing and knocking him back down again.

From the impact, Subaru's goggles slid down and over his eyes, and that's when he noticed something about Freya.

"W-Wait, what the!?" Subaru thought aloud, noticing that his goggles were allowing him to see a powerfully sinister and evil aura around Freya, and what looked like her soul being clouded with darkness. It also became evident that her fur and overall pallette gained a more greyed and dark violet palette

"These…These aren't my riding goggles!" Subaru yelled in shock, stunned that he grabbed the wrong goggles. Great, now he stole somebody's goggles. Hopefully they wouldn't be too angry about it...

Upon having seen the shadowy aura with his goggles, something allowed the veil to be lifted and the other three were now able to see the aura as well.

"Goodness, it's more than just a bad attitude you have!" The Cupistol remarked, slowly getting back up.

"Well, whatever is up with her, we gotta blast her," The Mermaidyn stated rather aggressively, getting back up and balling her fists. "It's our duty as Blasters after all!"

"And I guess I should try to help as well…" Subaru finished, slowly getting back up. "I mean you guys were in a pretty bad bind…"

"Let's get back up again, shall we?" The Cupistol started, doing a bit of a glamorous pose as he blew a kiss and shot his small pistol. "Now, Kiss of Life!"

When the shot was fired, a purifying dazzle of pink energy flowed and bloomed through the other teammates, letting them get back up to their feet.

"Ugh, even this dazzling sight is getting a bit much for me…" Freya remarked, seeming unable to move from the gang getting healed.

"That's pretty bold coming from you," The Mermaidyn snarked, before focusing, blue energy radiating from her hands. "Take this, Beach Wave!"

"L-lemme add in too! Meteor Stone!" Ryuusei commented, doing a little pose.

The double soultimate, a powerful wave of water followed by small pebbles from the sky, left Freya absolutely stunned at the sight.

"Alrighty! I'm gonna show this mean ol' yokai who's boss now!" Subaru shouted wholeheartedly, getting into a bit of a stance as he wound up his fists and got into a running position.

"Shooting Starstorm Strike!" Subaru yelled, jumping and performing a mighty striking punch to Freya in a speeding rush, moving at the speed and grace of a shooting star.

"Graaaagh! No!" Freya muttered after such a powerful attack, her physical form being reduced to dust and something falling to the ground.

"F-Freya!" The Cupistol suttered, the others running up to see what had fallen. What had fallen was something similar to a soul gem, but the soul of Freya still beating within, though it's clear the darkness was still apparent.

"Oh no...What are we gonna do…" Ryuusei pondered, nibbling a bit at his claws.

"Well, what can we do?" Subaru asked, scratching the back of his head. "I mean, I'm really good at punching things, not so much at healing them just saying."

"I think somebody back at base might be able to try and figure something out…" The Mermaidyn wondered, before nodding.

"Alrighty, if you know somebody, you can go ahead and get goin-" Subaru stated, starting to walk off before Ryuusei grabbed the rabbit yokai's arm.

"Don't, we might need your help if there's more yokai that got hurt like Freya did...And we could use all the help we can get...Please?" Ryuusei asked politely, pretty much giving puppy eyes at Subaru.

Subaru gave a heavy sigh and some deep thought. He was never really bound to anywhere for as long as he could remember. So maybe, just maybe, being with these guys wouldn't be too bad...Plus if there's powerful evil afoot like Freya was, he feels the need in his soul to try and stop it.

"Sure, I suppose I could try helping," Subaru agreed to it, nodding slightly. "Though...I'm not the best people person, just who are you guys anyways…"

"Well well, I'm none other than the great Eros," The Cupistol, Eros, introduced himself with quite a bit of fanfare.

"And I'm Akoya, plain and simple," The Mermaidyn, Akoya introduced herself.

"You've already met me, but let's get back to base now, yeah?" Ryuusei commented, holding onto Freya's gem closely.

"Sure thing!" Eros responded, tapping something on a small handheld device that had two screens and soon enough, a yellow door conjured right in front of them, opening up and engulfing the four in a bright light, before disappearing…

Once the light had died down, the four seemed to be in a secluded area in a suburban neighborhood in the Yokai World, a thicket of dense trees covering a large house with three levels.

The main three walking up to the door and pulling out cards without another word as Subaru awkwardly just stood there. Ryuusei had a green one, Eros a blue one, and Akoya having a red one. There was a bit of chattering among the three, before Akoya scanned her card into a card scanner at the side of the door.

"Blasters ID card verified," A gentle computerized voice said, before a click behind the door could be heard. "Welcome back, blasters."

Opening the door and entering, the main foyer of the base was quite quaint and peaceful. It was a very nicely kept looking place, not a mess or a speck of dust in sight. First floor seemed to also lead into a large garage, and had a few seats and couches. A nearby table had mail all neatly organized. A few wooden signs were by the door, saying to remember to wipe your feet and to be polite.

"W-Woah, I ain't ever seen a nice place like this one…" Subaru stammered to himself, looking in awe at the relaxing base. "This is your base of operations?"

"Sure is!" Ryuusei confirmed for the rabbit.

"Though we aren't the only ones here, we have our commander and research and development manager," Eros informed. "They should be down here to meet you in a moment, pretty sure they know we're back."

Swift footsteps could be heard coming down the stairs from the second floor of the house, before the source of those footsteps finally appearing.

"Oh...You guys are back already?" A shy, kinda meek voice piped up. Said voice was coming from a dark skinned gecko yokai, with red hair tipped with a bright scarlet orange and wearing thick yet casual purple and black clothes. His eyes were a matching shade of scarlet orange, highlighted with reddish-pink markings.

"Yeah, we bought a bit of extra company, don't worry about him," Akoya informed, before turning over to Subaru. "Anyways, this is our research and development manager, Yoshiro. He's a pretty handy Uber Geeko."

"Yeah...Sure am, I helped get a lot of the technology in this place running…" Yoshiro added in, seeming a bit overwhelmed. "Dunno why I came down here first…But, it's nice to meet you uhh…"

"Name's Subaru, I'm not sure what kinda yokai I'm supposed to be but I like...helping people...in danger," Subaru introduced himself, his awkward nature starting to show through. Goodness, he related so much already to Yoshiro.

Soon another set of footsteps could be heard, Eros looking over at Subaru.

"And you're about to meet our commander," Eros whispered, Subaru looking slightly nervous. Hopefully whoever they were, they weren't going to be too mad about some random yokai sliding on into their nicely kept base.

"Goodness, didn't know we had some company over…" A distant voice from the upper floor said, swiftly coming down the stairs.

The second yokai to appear was another humanoid animal much like Yoshiro, but was a lilac and pink spider from the looks of it. She was a bit on the softer side, wearing a pink sweater with a spider web pattern and a white frilly apron over her black kimono. She had gentle teal eyes hidden behind cat eye glasses.

"So, you guys are back already? Did something happen on patrol?" The perky looking spider yokai asked the three noddings.

"Yeah, it's a bit of a long story about what happened, so let's get to explaining," Akoya informed, giving a bit of a sigh.

The three explained what had happened, that Freya started to act oddly violent and Subaru was able to expose a strange aura on her, before she was swiftly defeated and turned into some Soul Gem like object, her soul still showing an evil aura.

"Oh goodness, none of that sounds good…" The spider yokai responded in shock at the news, before focusing her look to Subaru. "I take it you're this Subaru that was spoken of?"

"Sure thing miss," Subaru confirmed with a nod.

"Very well, I'm the commander of this team, Keiko, it's a wonderful pleasure meeting you!" Keiko properly introduced herself, kneeling down to Subaru's level and shaking his small hand. "Welcome to the Shooting Star Squadron!"

"The what now?" Subaru paused for a moment. Hopefully questioning the commander wouldn't get on her bad side.

"Our team is the Shooting Star Squadron, we're a team comprised of one representative from the three branches in the Blasters Association." Keiko explained. "As Blasters teams usually fit into one of three branches,"

"First there's the branch I'm from, Azure Pegasus," Eros explained. "We're mostly spirit focused for both offensive and defensive spiritual skills."

"I come from the Scarlet Lion branch," Akoya added in, crossing her arms with a bit of sass. "We are strong fighters who use sheer strength and bravery, and aren't afraid to get our hands dirty in a fight!"

"And I'm from the Jade Dragon branch to wrap things up," Ryuusei finished. "Most of the blasters are very quick, masters at tripping up the enemy, or both, but I'm still getting my hang of things."

"Huh, you'd think they'd just split it up into two to make things easier," Subaru remarked. "Something like Red Cat and White Dog, a bit more on the simple side you know?"

"Hmm, never heard that one before…" Keiko pondered, stroking her chin before getting back on track. "Anyways, you'll need to take a trial to see what branch you'll be a part of, so you can be an official blaster."

"Getting into a registration trial can take a few days, especially now since the Elite Blasters are rather busy given a lot of disappearances as of late," Eros added in with a hefty sigh. "All this hysteria is really digging into my beauty sleep!"

"I would hate to be a bother but…" Yoshiro spoke up, coming down the main flight of stairs with an electronic pad in his hands. "I think I've figured out a possible lead on the darkness energy on Freya's soul…"

The rest of the group looked shocked at what the gecko had to say.

"The dark energy around Freya's soul seems to be very similar to that of the Essence of Evil…" Yoshiro explained.

"Oh no...you don't mean that…" Ryuusei stammered in fear.

"If your reports are right dear…" Keiko began in shock. "Then it must mean the Wicked have returned…"

"The who know?" Subaru asked, Keiko adjusting her glasses.

"The Wicked are a group of evil yokai lead by Dame Dedtime who once sought to take over the human and yokai worlds thirty years ago, back in 1987," Keiko explained with a heavy tone. "However, they were defeated by all the Blasters back then and sealed away in the Infinite Inferno…"

"Then they must be behind the disappearances and yokai going all berserk!" Akoya concluded. "Even the grey and dark violet color scheme is very similar to Wicked cursed yokai."

"Looks like we're gonna have to go on a hunt for these wicked folks," Subaru added in with a nod, before giving a bit of a yawn. "At least, after we've all rested. I'm bushed and everbody's okay with me staying here for the night?"

"Sure thing, we're all more like a family here if anything," Keiko smiled gently. "The dorms and break area is on the third floor, and shower if you can, please."

"Right...Everybody go rest up, I'll stay here and keep doing the research I can and see if there's a way to get Freya's physical form back…" Yoshiro muttered. "Uhh...Keiko dear, you don't mind heading back home in my place? I'll probably be running late…"

"Oh Yoshiro dear, I'll let everybody back home know," Keiko responded with, giving a smooch on the gecko's cheek. "Just don't overwork yourself okay?"

Soon everybody went their ways to rest up for the night, to hopefully figure out the bottom of this mystery behind the Wicked Yokai tomorrow. But, even yokai needed to rest up…

Elsewhere, looking over the city of Springdale from the sacred Mt. Wildwood was a small feline yokai, donning a torn up cape that seemed to cover most of their appearance. Their eyes looked around a bit frantically.

"Hopefully they won't find me here...Even if I stole that device right from under their noses," The feline yokai spoke to themselves, holding a circular disc. "They'll never get their hands on my medal either...all I can hope is that the Soul Scanner ended up into safe hands at this rate…"